Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2013-03-25 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 24/03/13 17:02, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: Maybe it's just enough to put it in the wiki, so that one knows what to expect. One small detail I forgot to mention: initially I assigned 1GB of memory to the virtual machine (https://www.mageia.org/en/support/ says 512MB minimum, 2GB

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2013-03-25 Thread zezinho
Em 25-03-2013 08:54, Luca Olivetti escreveu: One small detail I forgot to mention: initially I assigned 1GB of memory to the virtual machine (https://www.mageia.org/en/support/ says 512MB minimum, 2GB recommended), no swap, and eventually urpmi started giving strange errors. Next time I gave

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2013-03-24 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 24/03/13 13:08, En/na Colin Guthrie ha escrit: 0) In the Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation NetworkManager stopped working, in its place the network applet was used (after the upgrade both worked). Yeah, this is due to various folders disappearing... I guess I should probably do something

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2013-03-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Luca Olivetti at 24/03/13 16:02 did gyre and gimble: I performed the update under the Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation and, since that had no graphical boot, the resulting new kernel also has no graphical boot. To restore it I had to manually run dracut once booted in mageia 3.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2013-03-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 18/11/12 17:37, En/na Colin Guthrie ha escrit: Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup etc. etc. I prepared a virtual machine with the same set of packages I have in the real one with mageia 2 to test the upgrade. Once installed the mageia-prepare-upgrade

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Mika Laitio at 16/12/12 17:00 did gyre and gimble: On 12/16/2012 01:55 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 16 December 2012 12:38, Mika Laitio lam...@pilppa.org wrote: Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update. During the install some package seemed

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-16 Thread Mika Laitio
This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally. Hi, tested this on yesterday with the up

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-16 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 16 December 2012 12:38, Mika Laitio lam...@pilppa.org wrote: Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update. During the install some package seemed to hang (I don't remember anymore which one) and I canceled install with ctrl-c and saw message about error in

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-16 Thread Mika Laitio
On 12/16/2012 01:55 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 16 December 2012 12:38, Mika Laitio lam...@pilppa.org wrote: Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update. During the install some package seemed to hang (I don't remember anymore which one) and I canceled install

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 11/12/12 19:56 did gyre and gimble: Op dinsdag 11 december 2012 20:27:23 schreef Remy CLOUARD: [...] I presume your setup is such that /var is indeed on a separate partition? Yeah, I don’t see the point of having a separate usr so that one went smoothly. However,

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 12/12/12 04:34 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 03:56:30 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: Can I ask: 1. Do you have /var on a separate partition? no, same patition. I have / swap and /home 2. If so, did my updated package allow you to mount it

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-12 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 11/12/12 19:27 did gyre and gimble: If the symlinks disappear and are replaced again by folders, then also make sure you disable mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service as it helpfully nukes the symlinks (the update does this but perhaps it's somehow been

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-11 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 11/12/12 04:51 did gyre and gimble: On Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:55:13 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 09/12/12 18:48 did gyre and gimble: On 9 December 2012 13:18, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: So I've just

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-11 Thread Remy CLOUARD
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:49:03PM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/12/12 12:14 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 08/12/12 12:25 did gyre and gimble: ... I’ve followed the procedure and could upgrade my system from 2 to cauldron, but I

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-11 Thread AL13N
Op dinsdag 11 december 2012 20:27:23 schreef Remy CLOUARD: [...] I presume your setup is such that /var is indeed on a separate partition? Yeah, I don’t see the point of having a separate usr so that one went smoothly. However, having a separate /var is useful even on a desktop for me,

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-11 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 03:56:30 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 11/12/12 04:51 did gyre and gimble: On Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:55:13 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 09/12/12 18:48 did gyre and gimble: On 9 December 2012

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-10 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:55:13 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 09/12/12 18:48 did gyre and gimble: On 9 December 2012 13:18, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2 core/updates_testing.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 08/12/12 22:51 did gyre and gimble: On Sunday, November 18, 2012 09:37:43 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, As many of you know, upgrading from Mageia 2 is somewhat tricky due to the usr move. With Alpha3 comes the ability for the installer to upgrade the

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/12/12 12:18 did gyre and gimble: What is needed is to add some directories and then the network will start /var/run/netreport Hmm, even on my mga2 system, I have the following in /etc/tmpfiles.d/initscripts.conf: d /var/run/netreport 0775 root root -

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-09 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 9 December 2012 13:18, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2 core/updates_testing. This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the Mageia 3

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/12/12 12:14 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 08/12/12 12:25 did gyre and gimble: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:37:43PM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, [...] So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 09/12/12 18:48 did gyre and gimble: On 9 December 2012 13:18, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2 core/updates_testing. This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-08 Thread Remy CLOUARD
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:37:43PM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, [...] So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2 core/updates_testing. [...] Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup etc. etc. Col Hi Colin, I’ve followed the

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-12-08 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 09:37:43 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, As many of you know, upgrading from Mageia 2 is somewhat tricky due to the usr move. With Alpha3 comes the ability for the installer to upgrade the filesystem layout, but many of you (myself included) prefer upgrading via

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and then perform a urpmi

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 09:40:21 AM Thierry Vignaud wrote: On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the Mageia 3 Upgrade Preparation

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 18 November 2012 18:59, Thomas Spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com wrote: 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the upgrade boot. Cannot you just automatically remount / rw? This is great, but if

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 18/11/12 16:40 did gyre and gimble: On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the Mageia 3 Upgrade

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 18/11/12 17:59 did gyre and gimble: This is great, but if you are running it on a Virtualbox, it will not work (at least it didn't work 2 weeks ago). I presume you just mean urpmi upgrading generally rather than anything usr move specific which is the

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread zezinho
Em 18-11-2012 19:12, Thierry Vignaud escreveu: 2 weeks ago). The problem is I (you) lose the network connection at the initial 100+ packages upgrade and you cannot finish it. I may try it again after the holidays, but we may need to put a warning out. The other option would be to download

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Pascal Terjan
On 18 Nov 2012 22:13, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 18/11/12 16:40 did gyre and gimble: On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your bootloader.

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

2012-11-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 18/11/12 23:52 did gyre and gimble: On 18 Nov 2012 22:13, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie mailto:mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 18/11/12 16:40 did gyre and gimble: On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie